Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-24
DoNA zsADORA CoUsENo.
Tho Chtlisn Money Q0eun Whose Wealth SurpasAes That ofthe Wander

Tho Chtlian Money Queun Whose Wealth SurpasAes That ofthe Wander
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 New York Letter to Washington Post
 It is settled, I suppose, that the Dona Isadora Cousino is coming to New York soon the season is fairly opened this win- ter. It she does the city will have sensa- tion and one of sort that 1t appreciates. The Chilian money queen neVer does any thing by halves. She proposes to take house, furnish it as few houses in New York havs ever been furnished, and it is in the air that she means to show New Workers how unlimited cash can entertain. She can teach lesson or two in that art if she tries. She is learned professor and money fetches New York every time.
 The Sonora Cousino Is something more than the richest woman in the world. She has one of the biggest fortunes held by either sex-possibly the largest the western continent. She is, unless the last season or two has faded her greatly, something of a beauty. She is great deal of an eccentric and not little of genius. She has aston ished pretty nearly all the capitals of Europe in their turn, snd she cannot rest on her laurels without astonishing New York, too.
 ue DOua 1SaOOEa IS uOt uuCH Siloft OI forty, but she looks younger. She is rather above medium height, and dresses to look 1 tall. Her figure is graceful, but her big dark eyes are her taking feature. Her skin | is Spanish brown with dash of red ! under it, and she has quantities of dark ! hair. She is one of the best-dressed women in the world in an imperial sort of way, and with daring of color. I doubt 1T | there is anywhere private jewel collection ! to equal hers. She wears more stones at at time than is usual with people who
 haven't so many and who live in North Ameri- \ can attitudes
 1 No more business woman exists She
 inherited cattle, married mines, and now, 1 widow, has gone into about every money ! producing enterprise in which Chili, the i most progressive of the southern republics,
 has engaged. She is the biggest real estate l owner in Santiago and Valparaiso. She l has furnished the capital for manufacturing l enterprises She has started art potteries. She has built a railroad and runs two lines ! of iron steamships. South American for ! tunes are hard to estimate, but many people
 have put hers above $200, 900, ,000. Money | multiplies fast In her hands, for her eye is l everywhere.
 her cousins, believe, whom she sent to a New England college, some years ago. I South Americans, by the way, have fancy
 for New England schools. The young man I was fairly clever, very good looking, not at
 all studious, had plenty of money and was a great favorite. Shortly after the beginning
 of term he left school abruptly, sent
 abroad, the tale went, by whim of
 his rich relative. Some magnificent rubies
 that she had many times cors,e6
 had been offered for sale and hat I gone on the market with out her knowledge. He was sent to hunt out their buyer, trace the gems and get
 them for her at any price. The rubies
 were some of Eugenie's-it is odd how the
 ex-Empress' gems, laces and poodle dogs
 turn up everywhere-and they were in New ! York before he reached the other side. A
 would-be swell dame had paid good many 1 thousands for them, and the scion of the
 southern princess posted back again, got
 an introduction to the house, fattered the
 good lady, told her the predicament he was
 in, offered her choice of all the jrwellers
 stores in creation at any figure, and, in short got the rubies, delivered them in person and
 saved his prospects in life and Dona Isadora's
 good graees.
 There are two slender, graceful daughters
 somewhere in their teens, who will come out
 in New York, and high times are ahead
 Mother and girls speak the purest English
 as all sChilians do. The sonora is a tropical
 creature and, If all tales of her are. true, sub jectt to cyclones.